An excellent talk on a very interesting and important topic of universal and international nature. Talal Asad is really an accomplished scholar of no match!
This is a GREAT historical observation, which is at the same time western and repetitive. There is a sense of continuous Eurocentrism in the western postcolonial scholarship. These are beautiful and grand words when they are taken as western self-criticism. But in the Middle Eastern context and former colonies, they often bring nothing, except possible hatred and self-victimization. I read somewhere that Bin Ladan used to quote postcolonial thinkers. This rhetoric is quite appealing to the Sunni fundamentalists and to the Shia ayatollahs, all love postcolonialism because of its eloquent criticism of "The Enemy" and for justifying their Islamist atrocity. In Middle Eastern postcolonialism, where does the criticism of the "other" stop and where does self reflection begin?
renaissance humanism, begin secular vision universal moral order askip : -idea of humanity, subject of universal human rights -sympathy, psychological engine sustaining solidarity underpinning those rights
An excellent talk on a very interesting and important topic of universal and international nature. Talal Asad is really an accomplished scholar of no match!
great voice
This is a GREAT historical observation, which is at the same time western and repetitive. There is a sense of continuous Eurocentrism in the western postcolonial scholarship. These are beautiful and grand words when they are taken as western self-criticism. But in the Middle Eastern context and former colonies, they often bring nothing, except possible hatred and self-victimization. I read somewhere that Bin Ladan used to quote postcolonial thinkers. This rhetoric is quite appealing to the Sunni fundamentalists and to the Shia ayatollahs, all love postcolonialism because of its eloquent criticism of "The Enemy" and for justifying their Islamist atrocity. In Middle Eastern postcolonialism, where does the criticism of the "other" stop and where does self reflection begin?
Where can I possibly get a script of this lecture? Thanks!
renaissance humanism, begin secular vision universal moral order askip :
-idea of humanity, subject of universal human rights
-sympathy, psychological engine sustaining solidarity underpinning those rights